Dew Drop – October 22, 2015 (#2117)

Top Links

• MSDN Magazine: Special Windows 10 Issue (Clint Rutkas)
• .NET Rocks! – The Martian Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Extensions by Mads Kristensen | Visual Studio Toolbox (Mads Kristensen & Robert Green)
• Material Design for Your Xamarin.Forms Android Apps (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• 12 Rules for Professional JavaScript in 2015 (Cory House)
• WebStorm 11 Beta (Ekaterina Prigara)
• In-place Rename Refactoring in PhpStorm 9.5 (Gary Hockin)
• Know your Node.js (and VS Code) (Greg Duncan)
• PostCSS Deep Dive: Preprocessing with “PreCSS” (Kezz Bracey)
• Snippets in Orchard Layouts (David Hayden)
• Playing with Azure Connectors (Adarsha Datta)
• Influences on ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Can I dispatch multiple actions from Redux action creators? (James K. Nelson)

 

XAML

• Setting a WPF Application’s Icon (Richard Carr)
• Hosting JavaScript in a Windows 10 App (Nick Randolph)
• How to turn off the frame rate counters for Windows Universal App’s ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Windows 10 maps part 7 – using external maps with TMS/WMS (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lambda Expressions in Debugger Windows – Day 21 – Visual Studio 2015 (Rachel Hagerman)
• Memory Profiling in Visual C++ 2015 (Adam Welch)
• How to create relationships between entities in the Entity Framework Code First Approach (Dhananjay Kumar)
• AutoMapper 4.1.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using C++ debug visualizers in VS2015 (Dror Helper)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: The Factory Method Pattern (Avinash Zala)
• How to use Visual Studio Online to Streamline Your Application Development with Agile Methodology (Mansib Rahman)
• Relax. Everyone’s Code Rots (Erik Dietrich)
• The Psychology and Emotion Behind Color in Web Design (Karol K.)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Error Handling in Swift 2 (Bart Jacobs)
• Introducing Skype Developer Story: tracking the developer capabilities across different platforms and technologies. (Tom Morgan)
• Open Sourcing App Service Mobile .NET Server SDK (Donna Malayeri)
• Article: How the Internet of Things will Impact our Productivity (Torri Myler)
• Using npm Modules in NativeScript Mobile Apps (Todor Todev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 307 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Eric Courville (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Are you in the mood for HTTP? (Glenn Block)
• OfficeDevShow – Episode 15 – Getting Started with Android Studio | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• 37 ngAir – Live at Angular Connect (Kent C. Dodds)
• 182 JSJ RxJS with Matthew Podwysocki (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• Start Up Success Podcast 3.6: Funding Options (Bob Walsh)
• Performance Tuning Your Mobile Web Apps (Session Recording) (Brian Rinaldi)
• Developer on Fire Episode 049 | Dave Thomas – Programmer First (Dave Rael)
• 56 – Urbicide Glazed Steak | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Jared S.)
• Beyond MDM—How to protect your data with BYOD and SaaS implemented | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Dev Days at Syncfusion 11/14! (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Get your bibs ready for Big Android BBQ! (Colt McAnlis)
• Modern Apps Live! is Coming Up (Magenic)
• EVENT: Microsoft Connect(); // 2015 – November 18-19 (Developer Virtual Event) (Kurt Shintaku)
• The user group I organize now has a code of conduct (Matt Lacey)
• Joe Belfiore is taking a year off from Microsoft (Tom Warren)

 

Database

• New SQL Server Management Studio Azure Integration (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Interesting Observations Using MONEY Datatype (Pinal Dave)
• Automate SQL Agent Job Deployment with SMO (Carla Abanes)
• Blog Post: The MERGE and large data sets (Denny Cherry)
• Postgresql as a Document Db for .Net Development (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

PowerShell

• Azure DSC Extension 2.8 & How to map downloads of the extension dependencies to your own location. (Travis Plunk)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s dope new tool is like autocomplete for drawing (Margaret Rhodes)
• Surface Book reviews: Microsoft made a great laptop, but detachable screen may be overkill (James Risley)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1570 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1952 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (10/5-10/18) (Dara Monasch)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-22 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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